This week has been super busy with celebrating Halloween 🎃👻 We have continued to explore the autumnal changes by incorporating our treasure hunt findings into our ECC learning experiences. Thank you to everyone that took part, we hope it was an enjoyable experience and we have enjoyed seeing everyone’s pictures and exploring what was found🍂🍁 We also had our Halloween stay and play this week which was lots of fun, we loved showing our families what learning takes place in the ECC. Playing in the slime was a favourite this week⭐️

Links to the curriculum; Technology, Social Studies, Expressive Arts, Health and Well-being

In the creative area we have been exploring Halloween and using different paints and collage materials to create ghosts, spiders, pumpkins etc.🎨🧑‍🎨

Links to the curriculum; Expressive Arts

Outdoors this week we have been making potions in the water tray and tuft spot, we have been mixing messy materials together and discussing the different textures, colours and smells. We have also been enjoying ‘what’s the time Mr Wolf’ where we  have to use our listening skills, counting and jumping skills.🐺⏰

Links to the curriculum; Numeracy, Science, Health and Well-being

To everyone celebrating Halloween tonight and over the weekend/Monday, stay safe and have lots of fun🎃👻

Beth

Link attached to complete the questionnaire, thank you.

This week we have been exploring autumn animals and their habitats and how to care for them. We were also exploring nocturnal animals and different types of nocturnal animals. The children made their very own habitat for a hedgehog 🦔.

Links to the Curriculum;

Science, Technology, Expressive Arts.

In the creative area we have been exploring autumn and using different objects to create leaf people, using their imagination and creativity to create recognisable features of a person. 🍁 🍂

Links to the Curriculum;

Science, Expressive Arts, Health & Wellbeing.

Outdoors this week we have been exploring the autumnal change in the weather; collecting leaves, discussing patterns, shapes and colours in the leaves. We were also working collaboratively to construct different designs, exploring in our sandpit, ordering numbers in the hopscotch.

Links to the Curriculum;

Science, Numeracy, Health & Well-being, Literacy.

STEM home link if you haven’t already done so you can take part in this over the holidays, enjoy!

Have a lovely October break everyone, Cara.

Summer is well and truly over in relation to weather!

Within the playroom we have been exploring the change in the season. Children have been investigating nocturnal animals such as squirrels and finding out some facts using natural materials and the promethean board.

curricular area TECHNOLOGY, HWB, LITERACY.

Within the creative area children investigated sunflower heads that one of the returning children brought in. They had grown from the seeds children planted before the summer. We used them as a prop to be creative.

Curricular area SOCIAL STUDIES

An autumn tree was created too exploring the colours of autumn and range of creative materials.

curricular area EXPRESSIVE & AESTHETIC, SCIENCE.

OUTDOOR

The weather wasn’t the kindest to us this week but children being children still enjoyed going out. They continued to build knowledge of number doing hop scotch and using wooden number blocks.

Lots of encouragement was given this week to dressing and undressing for outdoors and self selecting their own suits.

curricular area NUMERACY, HEALTH & WELLBEING.

Gentle reminder we close on FRIDAY 14th for October holidays, normal pick up time 2.45pm.

Have good weekend, Lynnette x